Festival Screenings for 2008

Great news! 4 Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge is an Official Selection at the 2008 RIVERKEEPERS FILM FESTIVAL with screenings in Raleigh, New Bern, Oriental, and Kingston (all in beautiful NC) in January and February 2008. Visit RIVERKEEPERS online at: http://www.neuseriverkeepers.org/filmfestival.html

Also, 4 Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge is an Official Selection at the 10th Annual SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in beautiful Spokane, WA (Not too far from where I shot the film!) February 7-17, 2008. Visit the SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL online at: http://spokanefilmfestival.org/index.html

I'm honored to be included in both of these wonderful film festivals. Based on these acceptances, I've recently sent 4 Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge out to several more festivals. I'll keep you posted. Cheers! Todd

4 Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge

Recently, while traveling alone across the US, I stopped at an abandoned bridge near Richland, WA just as the sun was setting. The area around me was so amazingly beautiful that I grabbed my video camera (Panasonic DVX 100) from my van and began shooting the Columbia River and the landscape around it. Nearly breathless, I watched as the receding summer sun transformed the river, hills and sky around me into a painting of pure movement and color.



I began editing in my hotel room that evening and completed a rough-cut of the film before leaving WA state.



Arriving home (NC) several weeks later, I finished editing the short film and created a soundtrack from audio gathered during my trip. The results were astounding. And all I had done was captured what I had seen for 2 hours from an abandoned bridge and edited it together.



I named this short film "4 Minutes On An Abandoned Bridge". I burned several copies to DVD and I've submitted it to several film festivals so more people can see it. I'll keep you posted. Todd